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Sunday, August 28, 2011
Is Andre Ethier Tired of the Dodgers?
I'm confused over T.J. Simers story on Andre Ethier. What the heck is going on? Is Ethier really hurt? And if he is, why doesn't he just stop playing and risk of seriously injuring himself?
From the L.A. Times {linked here}
Ask Ethier if he should still be playing on a right knee that will require off-season surgery, and he says, "If you're expecting me to do what I've done in the past, no, there's no possible way I can do that right now. You can say tough it out and give it your best shot, but it's not going to happen.
"It's only going to get worse from this point. I've dealt with it all season long, but as the season goes on my body wears down. That's just the way it is — I keep getting put in the lineup, so what am I supposed to do?"
The Dodgers played all season without a left fielder, so why not make a change in right, shut down Ethier and wheel him into the operating room?
"A million-dollar question," Ethier says before catching himself. "But I think there is a value in finishing anything you start."
But in doing so, his reputation begins to suffer with fans left to wonder what's wrong with the guy. On the last trip, he hit .074.
Worse yet, and can it get any more around here, why would the team's general manager even hint at the possibility that Ethier might be faking an injury?
"What am I supposed to be concerned about?" General Manager Ned Colletti says. "That he has those numbers [since the All-Star break], that he's hurt or contends he's hurt?"
Contends he's hurt?
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Contends he's hurt? Did Ned Colletti just say Ethier is lying? Or is Ethier just being a baby and finding a way to get out of Los Angeles?
On August 1, I went to Petco Park with my friend Jason to catch the Dodgers game against the Padres. Hours before game time, Ethier was signing autographs and blasted the Dodgers organization. I wrote about it on Twitter {linked here} and Facebook that Ethier was not happy with the current Dodgers situation. Most of you got mad at me for not saying the full details on what happened that afternoon.
But seriously, like you didn't know he was not happy? I just didn't think it was right for me to blog about his comments. I did make the mistake of saying he was upset. Obviously I should have just stayed quiet. Looking back at that day, I think I was very angry over his comments that I had to tell you that he was upset. His comments reminded me of what Matt Kemp's agent, Dave Stewart told me after I asked him when was Kemp going to sign a long term deal with the Dodgers. {linked here}
Honestly, if that was Kemp doing the talking instead of his agent, I wouldn't have posted that video just because Kemp is a current member of the Dodgers.
Another example....
Like I mentioned yesterday, Dioner Navarro in Spring Training was asked by a fan how does it feel to be back with the Dodgers? And he said "A paycheck is a paycheck". What a jerk. I didn't blog about it because like I said with Ethier's comments, he's a current member of the organization.
Look, I'm not the L.A. Times or this big news company. It's just little old me. First of all, I'm a fan and I wouldn't want anyone to get in trouble over dumb comments.
Now with Ethier, I want him to be happy and have a great career with the Dodgers. I know he's a good guy and have seen him do some great stuff off the field. I just don't know if it's possible for him to be happy in Los Angeles again.
I'm sure there will be more news on this when the media arrives in Dodger Stadium and ask Ethier what's going on.
6 comments:
- Dodgerbobble said...
I agree with you Roberto. It seems like Andre has one foot out the door. I would love to have him back in Dodger blue, but his actions and words and the way he's playing all suggest he's unhappy and wants out.
- August 28, 2011 at 9:16 AM
- Amber said...
I'm not at all pleased with Ethier's attitude, but Colletti isn't helping. Taking a passive aggressive swipe at Ethier in the press is reminiscent of the whole debacle he created with Kemp last year. It's bad enough our owner is a fraud, we don't need a GM who can't man up and handle him concerns with players in the clubhouse instead of antagonizing them through the press.
- August 28, 2011 at 1:30 PM
- jonathan said...
No joke I'm goin to say what's really bothering eithier. He's jealous of Matt Kemp. He came in the season thinking he was gna be the man and when Kemp broke out he got all the attention and eithier can't deal with not being the face of the franchise
- August 28, 2011 at 2:03 PM
- White Devil said...
Interesting, Orlando. I'm not sure if it's that simple, but i do think it plays into Ethier's grumpiness.
It reminds me of when Mike Marshall and Pedro Guerrero played together. It seemed to me if Guerrero hit a 400 ft homer, Marshall tried to hit one 450 ft.
Ethier needs a PR makeover like Kemp got this year. I'm just not sure there is someone out there that can do it for Ethier like Lopes did for Kemp.
- August 28, 2011 at 6:09 PM
- Travis Fox said...
Andre has made a couple of comments this year that have thrown me off. Then he always comes back and tries to explain himself. It is getting annoying quite frankly. Steve Lyons did make a good comment on it in the post game show today saying that it was a T.J. Simmers article and he really never has anything good to say about the Dodgers or anything from the heart and all he does is try to stir trouble. I love him but then again if he doesnt want to be here why not just keep him next year and try and build his value up and trade him at the deadline He has been very confusing this year.
- August 28, 2011 at 6:41 PM
- jonathan said...
Is it that simple ? Maybe yes maybe no but eithier is sad to say weak minded u can see it after a tuff at bat u can hear it from his friends when they ask if the divorce affects the players . This kind of stuff affects eithier.
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Recent or soon-forthcoming guides that list Hope among the select number of institutions they single out for praise include the 2011 "Best Colleges" published by "U.S. News & World Report," the 2011 "Fiske Guide to Colleges" and the "America's Best Colleges 2010" published by "Forbes Magazine."
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A federal judge sentenced a former Wall Street trader to two years in prison on Wednesday for securities fraud, saying he took advantage of a government bailout program.
The judge also fined Jesse Litvak $1.75 million.
"This was a market that was dead in the water," Judge Janet Hall told Litvak. "This was a market that existed because of taxpayer money and you were in effect taking advantage of it through fraud."
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DISTANCE 100km (67m)
MAIN CLIMB Luccombe Hill, 441m above sea level
ACHTUNG! Westerly headwinds on the moors
One of the greatest English thinkers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was high on opiates in a farmhouse near Porlock in the summer of 1797 when he wrote 'Kubla Khan'. He was famously interrupted by a visitor from Porlock, but not before he had penned enough to leave the legacy of Xanadu to the world of rock (Rush) and to the cinema (Citizen Kane).
What Coleridge did not do was climb out of Porlock on a bike. When I did, as part of the Exmoor Beast, the last cyclo-sportive of the 2007 season, I could have done with some of Coleridge's medication.
The Brendon Hills above Porlock are the first upward hike in this lovely sportive, rising up onto the high plateau in the centre of Exmoor. The event is brilliantly organised by ex-marine and events specialist Marcus Di Vincenzo, and run by a team of Royal Marines.
It is so well conceived, and so well executed, that you can't help feeling that the RM should run the UK. Di Vincenzo is no cyclist, so he brings none of the preconceptions one might have about the cycling community's culture – this was part festival, part celebration, part race; a fabulous experience in all.
The route was stunning. Exmoor has some of the finest open scenery in England, and long vistas of moor and sea, bosky combes vibrant with autumn colours, and sinuous lush rivers; it is relatively unspoilt as an environment, although you can feel the pressure of people around the edges. But look up, and there is the north Somerset coast, with wooded hills rolling down to the Bristol Channel.
Planned with precision
The route starts out from Dunster, winding out of the castle grounds and through the town. It then heads north to the coast, then west skimming along the flat road to Minehead. Beyond Minehead, the route turns inland and follows a steep climb to the south.
This is Luccombe Hill, and while it is stiff, it is by no means impossible – just arduous enough to give a glow of achievement at the top.
Then it's up towards Dunkery Beacon, the highest point on Exmoor (519m), and across Exmoor into a sapping wind.
The area is called the Codsend Moors, mostly heather and gorse; but – if you're going slowly enough – there are grasses, sedges and mosses to catch your eye.
The plunge into Lynmouth, Countisbury Hill, bristles with highways warning signs and escape roads.
If you don't mind the smell of burning brake blocks, it is quite safe; if you can't bring yourself to slow down (or enjoy the coastline to the east), then it is a very fast descent indeed.
So imagine dragging a 10-ton lifeboat up the 25 per cent Countisbury gradient, at night, in a storm. Exactly what the lifeboat crew did in 1899 in order to save a ship in trouble off Porlock Weir.
Thirteen miles through the night, 20 horses, 100 men and a road-widening team sent ahead. Then down to Porlock. Two horses died, but the ship and crew were saved.Perhaps a man-powered charity race with boats over Exmoor might be an idea for next year!
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Up from Lynmouth, above the river Lyn that swept away the village in 1952, the ride climbs beautifully up through woods of oak, hazel and ash. This is the best section of the day: sustained and yet manageable, quiet, smooth, and intimate in contrast to the wide open spaces. Back on the moor, the route heads south in a steady slog via Simonsbath, the first feeding station. Beyond that, the route divides.
The 100km riders head east and then south to Dulverton, and finally north along the Quarme Valley (by far the worst of the road surfaces, local authorities take note). The 100m riders head south-east towards Dulverton and then follow loop back via Bampton to rejoin the route north. The finish is back at the start, Dunster Castle.
It had been a superb ride, the crowning triumph of an event that was faultlessly planned from start to finish.
The pre-ride information pack was exemplary, with clear information on timetable, parking and route. On the evening before the ride, waiting with information screens and local advice, Marcus and his wife were on duty in Dunster.
On the morning of the ride, marshals (marines, of course) did a great job of directing the traffic and getting everyone settled. There were bike racks and loos at the feed stations, there were mechanics and medics on call throughout, and the route itself was clearly marked and also easy to follow on a route card.
Hot soup and bacon rolls were hugely welcome at the feed stop, a cafe in Simonsbath. And a beer/burger tent at the finish gave the event a festival feel.
The ambition of this event was truly admirable, a lesson – that others organisers could learn from – in how to turn a mere event into a truly memorable occasion.
Di Vincenzo explains: "We want to make this the ultimate end-of-season event. But it's not just about the bike, everything is catered for: safety, feeding and enjoyment. With the Exmoor Beast you have it all." I agree.
The 100km (67.26m) route:
From Dunster Castle go through the high street and take the A39 west towards Lynmouth. Turn L at 6.09miles (m) to Luccombe. Turn R at 7.33m to Dunkery Beacon. Turn L for Dunkery Beacon at 7.89m. Down towards Exford at 8.51m. Take R for Porlock at 13.05. Take L for Lynton on A39 at 17.27.
Down Contisbury Hill to Lynmouth at 24.86m, then L on A59 for Barnstaple at 26.66m. Turn L uphill on B3223 for Simonsbath at 28.46m. Turn R on B3223 at 39.26m for Dulverton. Take sharp L at 48.91m in Dulverton on B3222 for Minehead. L at 50.15m on A396 for Dunster. R at Wheddon Cross at 58.60m. L for Timberscombe at Heath Poult Cross at 60.34m. R at 64.59m, then R onto A396 at 64.71m for Dunster.
The Exmoor Beast set-up is online at www.exmoorbeast.org and at www.activexmoor.com. Online entry is easy and cost £27 this year (the VAT on entries goes to Bike Somerset). It is organised by Marcus Di Vincenzo (firstname.lastname@example.com) and supported by Bike Somerset (www.visitsomerset.co.uk/bikesomerset) and Wildoo (www.wildoo.co.uk). Accommodation can be scarce, so book early in the Dunster and Minehead area (www.visitsomerset.co.uk).


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Before we get to the Funbag, Craggs wanted me to do a cattle call for audio and/or video of your local nutjob coach screaming at players. So if your indoor equestrian coach is chewing you out for hours at a time, and you had the moxie to take a video of said rant, send it on in. We won't yell at you. We're nice.
Now, your letters:
My son just finished kindergarten. Where we live in NJ, the cutoff date is September 30th. His birthday is late August, so we knew he would be one of the youngest in his grade. What we didn't realize is that any parent that has kids born in the summertime seems to know to hold their child back (or "redshirt" them) so that they switch from being potentially the youngest in their class to the oldest. So my boy now goes to school with kids that are 13/14/15 months older than him (which gives the others an apparent physical and intellectual advantage). Should I have redshirted him? Have I screwed him for life?
Growing up, I was a full year younger than pretty much all of my classmates in school. And lemme tell you: It sucked. Age differences mean nothing when you're an adult. But when you're a kid, someone who is a year older than you may as well be 20 years older. That's how wide the gulf can feel. And it really sucks at milestone ages like 16 and 21, when all of your classmates can drive and drink and drive drunk, and you still gotta wait a year. Even if no one else gives a shit, you'll still feel like they're holding it against you. "Oh, Christ, we gotta give Drew a ride again? Fuck that asshole."
Anyway, redshirting became a big thing after Malcolm Gladwell wrote Outliers and noted that older kids on the hockey team did better than younger kids on the hockey team. So then all the crazy hockey parents decided to have Little Gordie repeat kindergarten 15 times. Really builds your confidence. It will not shock you to learn that there many studies on thism and they all conflict because science is annoying. It could be that my youth as a student hurt my confidence. Or it could be that it made me GRITTY AND SCRAPPY and determined to overthrow my older peers. It could be that begging for rides and being the only asshole who can't go to the bar made me the cowardly blogging nerd I am today. No one really knows for sure. My sister was a year old for her grade, so even though we were three years apart in age, we were just one year apart in school. Neither of us seems to have suffered for it.
Parents will always redshirt kids, and drop $40,000 on some asshole private school so that they can cover their asses and say they gave Junior every advantage possible. Some kids flourish from that. Other kids burn out and go drop acid in the woods. I would say if your kid isn't profoundly unhappy where he is, just leave him. He'll probably be fine. Ninety percent of the time, the best parenting option is to just do nothing and let the kid figure it out.
At what age is it no longer acceptable to bring beer to a party, gathering, etc... and then take whatever remains of it home with you? I say after high school age, it just gets donated to the owner. However, I have a 32-year-old friend who does this regularly. He's a terrible person, right?
Yes, he's awful. In high school, alcohol is a relatively rare commodity, so hoarding is understandable. But at 32? No. Fuck that guy. At that age, alcohol is a party gift. You bring it in, and then you ask the host where you should put it, and then the host tells you he already has shitloads of beer here so you can put that six-pack in the basement, and then you think, But this is good beer. I don't want it at the back of the beer-consumption line. It'll get skunked. Then you rip that shit open and start drinking it yourself, then you get kicked out of the party for feeling up the neighbor. That's how polite people go about their business.
Besides, half the time, the host will ask you to take your shit back home with you anyway. That happens when you get to my age. At my age, NO ONE wants the leftovers. I once had a solid 10-minute passive-aggressive standoff over who had to take home the rest of a birthday cake. No one wants that shit cluttering up the house and making them fat. "Here, you take it." "No, I couldn't possibly!" "You take it." "But I have nowhere to put it, and it's such a lovely cake, I'd feel bad keeping it for myself!" "[Pulls gun] Just get the fucking cake out of here." Eventually, your love of free booze will be trumped by your need to not have piles of shit all over the place.
Have you ever farted with your headphones on? I refuse to. I'll always take an earbud out to make sure the fart is properly controlled (if I'm in public) or truly appreciated (if I'm at home). Technically this shouldn't matter, because if a work-fart has volume, it's not like I'll be able to do anything about it since it'll be too late. But I feel a lot safer farting in public with an open ear. This probably says something about me lacking confidence. Am I alone?
The only time I fart with headphones on is at the gym, because the farts come on strong, and I'd rather trick myself into believing no one heard it then to take out my headphones and remove all doubt.
But if I have headphones on in an office or something, I definitely pause to monitor the fart volume. If you can hiss one out without anyone noticing, you're always gonna make that call. Unless it's some awesome boy's-club office where people grade each other's farts on a greaseboard and play foosball and shit. That probably happens in the writer's room for The Daily Show or something.
My last name is McKeegan. But my sixth-grade basketball coach could not pronounce this (not that hard of a name), so everybody called me Keegan. Most of my high school teachers called me Keegan; the name followed me somehow to the small liberal arts college I attended out of state, and to the big (all relative) Midwest city where I now live.
In my mind, my name is Keegan. That is what everyone calls me, including my parents and siblings when they are really trying to get my attention. At what point to I draw the line when introducing myself? I don't want to call myself Keegan in a professional environment, and then hand out a business card and have it say something else. But I am in grad school part-time (LOANS, the government owns me), buy shit off craigslist, and am not a social introvert, so I usually introduce myself as Keegan. Is this weird?
Nah, I don't think so. You should always introduce yourself with the name you prefer people would use. Don't worry about business cards. People put all sorts of crazy extended names on business cards. "Hi, I'm Bob! [hands you business card that says H. Calvert Robert McVarnish XII, Jr.]" And plenty of famous people use their full name for television, but never for interpersonal interaction. Like Anthony Bourdain. Everyone calls him Tony. Why isn't the show called Tony Bourdain: Parts Unknown? Do I need to be part of the inner circle to have Tony privileges? That makes me feel sad and uncool.
Anyway, if you're Keegan, and you want to stay Keegan, just tell everyone you're Keegan. I had a friend once who went by one name with his friends, and a completely different name with his family, and that threw me off. Was he a different person when he was Jim and not Derek? WAS HE TWO PEOPLE?! I say keep it consistent.
If you tried out for your high school football team today, do you think you could make the starting lineup?
No, because I'd hurt myself during the first session of two-a-days. Every man dreams of going back to high school as an adult and kicking some serious ass, but I prefer to keep that illusion going in my head, rather than test it out in live action. I would like to daydream about strolling back onto the practice field as an experienced, savvy vet, and showing the young punks how it's done. MEN VERSUS BOYS, etc. What I lack in youthful dexterity I would make for in sheer guile. But I know damn well that one hit would put me in physical therapy for eight weeks. If only I had redshirted.
I speak English, and arguably a tiny bit of Spanish, but 100 percent of my thinking is done in English. I assume that all people think to themselves in their native language, unless they are bi- or multi-lingual, and are having a conversation in another language. But regardless, humans think to themselves in a language that they speak.
So how do dogs (and even other animals) think to themselves? When a dog smells some bacon, he doesn't think to himself in English, "Wow, that smells amazing." But the dog has to be thinking to itself something to that effect, right? But how? What is going on in a dog's head?
Well, dogs communicate in grunts and barks and howls, so they probably think that way as well, right? That's their "language", so when the dog smells bacon, he probably thinks BARK BARK. Hell, I'm a human. and that's what pops into my head when I smell bacon. That's a universal reaction.
I would disagree with the idea that all human thought is done with words. When I think of a sandwich, I don't think the word "sandwich." I picture a sandwich in my head, and then I picture myself making sweet sweet love to that sandwich. Sometimes Bach plays in the background. Words aren't always part of the mental processing. There are pictures and feelings and other gut instincts that don't form perfect sentences. I don't walk by a shop and literally think, "That looks like a fine shop. I will patronize that shop." It's a lot more complicated than that. This is why the movie What Women Want was fucking stupid. Well, one of the reasons.
Thought and dreams are fun because they aren't bound by language or even imagery. You can't accurately depict a dream in a movie because dreams are not a clear, single vision. They're not even framed. Sometimes you can feel things, but you can't quite see them. It's like a broken Imax movie, with cats crawling across your face. Thought isn't bound by physical laws, which means that you and your dog probably think alike in many ways, dreaming of humping random object, and forsaking all that you know and love to pursue a sizzling ribeye on a picnic table. Now let's all do a big bong hit.
Worse person: guy who gives himself his own handle for a call-in sports talk-radio show, or Hitler?
Hitler, but it's close. You'll never out-Hitler Hitler, even if you proudly identify yourself as "Keegan from Syosset" every time you call into WFAN. "It's me! Your old favorite guy who calls in to radio stations!"
By the way, I saw that Anthony from Opie & Anthony got fired last week, and I was like, "He couldn't have said anything THAT bad compared to the shit he's paid to say on a daily basis," and then I looked at the tweets, and HOO BOY! Turns out I was wrong! That was some serious all-in racism. Kinda refreshing that it was so cut and dried. No dipshit racist coded language for that fella!
What percentage of people do you think lose their virginity at the same time they have their first kiss? For the purposes of this question, doing them both in the same day qualifies, even if it's not part of the same continuous hookup.
If you're kissing and losing your virginity all for the first time, you are either A) a highly religious person who waited until marriage to engage in both kissing and intercourse, or B) the EXACT opposite sort of person. If it were up to every man, kissing and popping your cherry would happen on the same day every damn time. I know when I kissed a girl for the first time, I was like, "All right! Now we're gonna have sex!" The girl then calmly explained to me that my plan had numerous flaws.
According to this website, only three percent of Americans wait until marriage to lose their virginity, which would make the percentage of people who do it the day of their first kiss even lower. If you've ever seen this video, you know that it's better to space them out:
If there was a job that would pay you $300,000 a year (pre-tax) to simply push a button every 60 seconds for eight hours a day, would you take it? Caveats being: You sit in a room by yourself with only this button in front of you; you have no other outlet of media/entertainment in front of you; you get two 15-minute breaks and a 30-minute break during your eight-hour shift and seven personal days off; if you do elect to take the job, you HAVE to complete the job for at least a year—not doing so would forfeit all compensation.
Would this mundane, tedious, and possibly psychosis-inducing task be worth a nice salary?
Does the button kill someone who is far away? No? It's just a button? That's no fun. Anyway, you would take this job. It's no different from being a lifeguard, really. A lifeguard can only sit there and look at the pool. No headphones. No socializing. No reading. You just sit there and look hot and pouty for hours on end, and the pay is much lower than $300,000 a year. I think the average person would take the button job, do it for at least a year, and then quit. You can rationalize the money all you like and still be unable to avoid burnout.
You have to give people credit: They don't always do shit for money, even if it's something relatively benign. Americans want to get paid AND we want to be creatively fulfilled, which makes us completely unreasonable people. My personal dream job is to be paid a billion dollars to get stoned and think of taco recipes.
The other thing is that you'd never stay in that job for long because the longer you stay, the more limited your options become. One time, I got offered a job to write legal ad copy. Really boring, tedious shit. The pay was pretty good, and I had a family to support, so I was mulling it over. And a guy I worked with at the time was like, "Yeah, the pay is good, but that job's a career-killer." And he was right. Once you take a limiting job like that, it's on your resume. You gotta explain your button duties in the next job interview, and that will mark you forever. Avoid the career-killer if you can. You probably can't.
What is the food alternative with the best-to-worst ratio when comparing brands? For instance, Mountain Dew vs. Mello Yello has to be up there. Meaning Mountain Dew is delicious and Mello Yello is shit.
I personally think there's an enormous gulf between Coke and Pepsi, because Pepsi is fucking terrible. People who like Pepsi must go around thinking to themselves, "You know, I'd like a Coke, but I want a Coke that tastes flatter and comes from a company that thinks Cuba Gooding Jr. makes for a good pitchman." To me, Coke/Pepsi represents the ultimate parity-product discrepancy. They're both made of pure shit, but by God, Pepsi is somehow a lower form of it.
Who holds the title for most tickets punched to the Mile High Club in history? JFK would be my guess, but Oswald cockblocked him. It has to be a U.S. president, right? Maybe it's Clinton then.
Nah, you can pick pretty much any filthy rich guy who owns a private jet, and you'll beat out Kennedy or any other U.S. president. The President has work to do on his private plane, and he has to keep things relatively discreet. A playboy oil sultan can concentrate on pussy for the entire flight. In Jeff Pearlman's book about the 1990s Cowboys, Jerry Jones uses his private plane specifically so he can nail his mistress. That's quality flyin'. So I'll take Richard Branson or Paul Allen for the title.
By the way, most of us will die never having had sex in a private jet, and I feel like society needs to correct that somehow. Some sort of luxury air-fuck welfare program.
Do professional sports players have work email addresses like the rest of us scrubs? I want to believe that Kobe keeps a folder of hate mail at firstname.lastname@example.com as motivation.
I doubt it. If you were a GM, would you hand JR Smith an official team email address, or would you prefer he proposition women using his own hotmail account, making him 100 percent liable for every stupid thing he does with it? I'm sure players and coaches are lectured on the use of email and perils of social media, and then the players go fuck it all up anyway.
By the way, if you've ever wanted to know if a famous person is emailing you, check for two things. ONE: An AOL account. Apparently, only famous people are stupid enough to still use AOL email. TWO: A cryptic phrase for the email name. If you get an email from firstname.lastname@example.com, that's guaranteed to be a famous person. Probably the president or something.
What if soccer goaltenders were able to use their hands on either end of the field?
I was wondering this during a World Cup game the other day when the losing side brought the goalie up for one last push (abandoning the goal in soccer is even more fun than abandoning the goal in hockey). The goalkeeper can't use his hands out of the box, but ohhhhh, if he could. If he could abandon the goal anytime he pleased to pull a Christian Okoye… That sounds like a really cool idea that would actually end up ruining the sport! I'd pay 10 bucks to see it happen. Dare you leave your goal unattended to make the Run Of Death?!
Maybe you could unlock the ability to always use your hands if you save 10 shots. Like getting your pawn to the end of the chessboard. QUEEN MY ASS, BITCH. Now that's what I call soccer!
What would happen if Congress announced this would be the final season of the NFL in 2014-15, other than riots and ESPN shutting down? How high would the ratings be for the final season?
I would watch every single game in its entirety. I would watch all the Sunday games on tape delay during the week and shit. And I would pay really close attention, not like when it's a terrible game, and I kinda drift off and think about bacon for minutes at a time. I would watch the pregame shows even thought the pregame shows are the fucking worst. I would watch highlight shows on a loop. I would really try to absorb as much footballness as possible before the coming NFLpocalypse, and I think most football fans would do likewise. Maybe a 20 percent bump in ratings, given that the NFL's popularity is already at critical mass.
The networks would milk this for all its worth. Every game would feature a graphic saying THE LAST SEASON in gold block letters. All pregame shows would be five hours long. Ad rates would skyrocket. Every game break would include a tasteful "NFL Memories" bit featuring some old player (probably Theismann, because he has nothing better to do) talking about how much he'll miss the League. And that's not even factoring in the whole new arm of the culture war this would kickstart. Let's just hope the NFL is always free to maim players and rob municipal coffers forever, so that you and I don't have to endure anything like that.
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A few years back, I was 18, and I had been dating this girl (my first serious girlfriend) for about four months. We spent the day at Disney World, which is about an hour and a half from our town, and were on the way home.
So we're about halfway home when I got that all-too-familiar feeling that often accompanies a day spent downing overpriced theme-park food and Daffy Duck-shaped sugar cookies. I began having sharp stomach pains and cramps and profusely sweating while exerting all my energy to keep my asshole from EXPLODING hot magma all over the interior of my sweet '04 Jeep.
In the midst of all this, I'm having a mini panic attack trying to figure out how I'm going to take care of this situation without letting the girl know what was up, since I had never farted in front of her, let alone been in the midst of an all-out bubblegut attack around her. Luckily, there was a rest stop up ahead, so I decided to pull in and try to play it off like I had to pee. I pulled in, shook her awake and tried to tell her in a calm voice (no small feat in such a situation) that I was going to use the restroom.
So I BARELY make it into the bathroom and I proceed to drop one of the nastiest dumps of my lifetime. Like, really really bad stuff. It takes me about 15 minutes to get cleaned up and get back out to my car, and I simply blow right by the fact that I was in there for that long. At this point, I think I've really dodged a bullet and my ordeal is over. It'd be a pretty standard and lame poop story if it ended there though, but, alas, it did not.
We didn't even make it a mile down the interstate before I am AGAIN about to explode, except this time it's even worse. I didn't have the luxury to wait for the next gas station this time. I immediately pull to the side of the road, RUN around to the other side of the car, squat RIGHT NEXT TO WHERE MY GIRLFRIEND IS SITTING and release a flood of hot, brown water all over the ground, with all the accompanying farts and bubbling sounds. I've given up on all dignity at this point, as there's obviously no hiding it anymore and I tapped on the window and asked her to hand me the box of tissues in the back seat, which she passed to me literally gagging from the smell when she cracked open the window. So I cleaned up and we headed home. Surprisingly, she ended up finding it pretty funny and somehow didn't break up with me, although I wish she would've, because she ended up being a psycho bitch.
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Mahler's Ninth Symphony is one of those pieces to which the word 'colossal' seems insufficient. Though minuscule in length and forces compared to his Eighth, the sheer emotional range and harmonic sweep of his final complete symphony make it an emotionally draining experience for both orchestra and audience.
Paradoxically, it was the chamber-like qualities of the work that made this particular performance so special. Despite the monumentality of the work, much of the symphony is made up of orchestral solos that evolve into duets or trios, and only at critical moments in the work does Mahler have the entire orchestra playing at full blast. The LSO players, as expected, sounded marvellous, but it was Harding's overall vision of the piece that brought the piece to its full emotional impact.
The first movement was perhaps the most eye opening – Harding took a noticeably faster tempo, and the many dynamic and tempo changes were less clearly delineated than usual. As a result, the famously episodic movement achieved a remarkable sense of coherence and restraint, with melodies flowing and surging into one another. The orchestra also played with an incredible unity in sound, making it impossible to tell where one instrument stopped and another started. Particularly striking was the ending of the movement, taken at a dangerously slow tempo. Though the woodwind intonation suffered slightly as a result, the tempo allowed the rhythmic and harmonic tensions of the score to truly stand out.
The second movement, in contrast to the first, was taken at a slower tempo than is typical. This relaxed pace allowed the coarse nature of the Ländler to come through, and contrasted effectively with the elegant waltz second theme. This was the movement that best allowed the orchestra to shine, with an incredible palette of colours ranging from sardonic to sophisticated to awkward, all within seconds of each other. Harding seemed to relish the contrast between themes, often to a fault – some of the tempo changes were so extreme that the transitions seemed a bit bumpy. The tempo changes of the third movement were navigated with much more finesse, resulting in a whirlwind of a rondo. Titled 'Rondo-Burleske', sarcasm and mockery always remained at the forefront, most notably in a saccharine slow section about two-thirds of the way through the movement. Harding retained tight control of the orchestra throughout, ensuring that the complex counterpoint could always be heard with precision and brilliance.
However, it was the fourth movement that elevated the performance to something truly special. Resisting the urge to overwork every phrase, Harding's restrained interpretation was all the more moving. The orchestra adopted a lean rather than lush sound, allowing them to respond to the multitude of solos scattered throughout the movement. Particularly noteworthy were the woodwind solos, with scarcely an audible entrance to be heard and seeming to emerge out of nothing. Harding's emphasis on the dissonances resulted in a less richly sonorous sound than usual, but with Mahler's harmonic tension at the fore, it was viscerally intense. The final notes were followed by a silence that lasted seemingly forever – a fitting response to a truly remarkable performance.


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Wanna take your top off in "A Nightmare on Elm St."? They weren't interested in me, something about "not having huge fake tits". Ah well.
A dark version of "Snow White" sounds pretty awesome, although I'm guessing they won't have to try so hard to make it scary. Those old Disney films are still terrifying.
John Lithgow joins "Dexter"... as a serial killer. I'm nominating this for best story of the week, hands down.
"Sorority Row", the remake of the 1983 film "The House on Sorority Row", has been rated "R for strong bloody violence, language, some sexuality/nudity and some partying". So "partying" gets you an R rating these days? That's interesting.
"Alien" gets a remake, apparently shooting down any hope that it might get a 5th installment. Supposedly though, Michael Costigan, Ridley Scott and Tony Scott are all on board as producers, and have picked their own director. So I guess that's good news?


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Mental Health Treatment Extends Lives Of Older Patients With Diabetes And Depression
May 30, 2020
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine report that older adults with diabetes and depression are half as likely to die over a 5-year period when they receive depression care management than depressed patients with diabetes who do not receive depression care management. The first known study to examine the relationship between diabetes and mortality in a depression intervention trial appears in the December issue of Diabetes Care.
"Depression is common among people with diabetes and contributes to issues with medication and diet adherence, and also leads to an overall reduced quality of life," says lead author, Hillary R. Bogner, MD, MSCE, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine at Penn.
The multi-site, practice-randomized controlled trial was conducted in 20 primary care practices in New York City, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. A total of 584 participants 60 - 94 years of age were identified through a depression screening, and of these participants, 123 reported a history of diabetes. The practices were randomly assigned to usual care, or a depression care management intervention, which involved a depression care manager who worked with the primary care provider to recommend treatment for depression and assist patients with treatment adherence.
At follow-up, 110 depressed patients had died. Depressed, older adults with diabetes who were in practices randomized to depression care management were less likely to have died at the end of the 5-year follow-up than were depressed, older adults with diabetes who received usual care. The authors note that they believe these findings support the integration of depression evaluation and treatment with diabetes management in primary care.
Additional study authors include Knashawn H. Morales, ScD, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Edward P. Post, MD, PhD, VA Health Services Research and Development & National Serious Mental Illness Treatment Research and Evaluation Center, Ann Arbor, MI, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan; and Martha L. Bruce, PhD, MPH, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, White Plains, NY.
This study was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.
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